Holder for fly-paper.



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DAVID MCBAIN SYME, OF NEWPORT, RHODE ISLAND.

HOLDER FOR FLY-PAPER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed September 1, 1909.

Patented June 27, 1911. Serial No. 515,663.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, DAVID MOBAIN SYME, a citizen of the United States, residingat Newport, in the county of Newport and State of Rhode Island, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Holders for Fly-Paper, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to improvements in holders for fiy-paper, and the object is to provide a simple and inexpensive frame or holder for supporting a sheet of sticky flypaper, so constructed that the paper may be readily attached for use or detached when it is desired to insert a fresh sheet.

A further object is to so construct such a holder that it may be folded to compact form for shipment or when not in use.

With the above objects'in view, the invention consists in the novel features of construction hereinafter fully described, particularly pointed out in the claims, and clearly illustrated by the accompanying drawing, in which- Figure l is a perspective view of a collapsible holder constructed in accordance with my invention: Fig. 2, a sectional detail View showing the manner of uniting the side and end-bars of the holder and securing the spring clamps in place; Fig. 3, a detail view showing in perspective the manner of connecting the two sections of the side and end-bars whereby they slide on each other, and Fig. 4, a fragmentary view showing a holder which is not collapsible.

Referring now more particularly to the drawing, the numeral 1 designates the sidebars of the frame which is of rectangular outline to accommodate the usual form of sheet of fly-paper, and 2 the end-bars. The side and end-bars are formed, in the construction shown in Figs. 1 and 3, of two sections, one section being slightly narrower than the other, and the sections of each bar sliding on each other. The wider section has near one end, ears 3, bent to form guides for the narrower section, and the latter has at one end, lateral ears 1 which form stops to prevent disengagement of the two sections. The frame may thus be folded to compact form. The sections forming the side-bars are bent at their outer ends to form supporting-feet 5 to which may be secured, pieces of felt 6 so as to prevent marring of the article of furniture on which the frame is placed. The inner ends of the wider sections of the sidebars are also bent to form supports 7 for the frame intermediately of its ends. The side and end-bars of the frame are preferably united by riveting as shown in Fig. 2 and the same rivet secures the spring-clamp 8 in place. There are four of these clamps, one at each corner of the frame and they are each formed of a piece of spring metal bent to form a base which lies flat on the bar of the frame and through which the rivet passes, and a clamping portion having a projection 9 resting in a depression in the bar. Each spring-clamp is also formed with a finger-portion by means of which it may be raised to insert or remove a sheet of fly-paper.

In the form of holder shown in Fig. A, the side and end-bars are not formed of two sections, but are each of a single piece of metal, the side-bars being bent intermediately of their ends to form central feet 10 for the frame.

From the above description it will be seen that I have provided a very simple construction of holder for fly-paper which may be placed on the market and sold at a small price, and which will securely hold a sheet of fly-paper.

Having thus fully described my invention what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States is 1. A holder for fly-paper comprising a metal frame having side and end-bars, rivets securing said side and end-bars together, supporting feet formed by bending certain of said bars downwardly at their outer ends, and spring-clamping devices secured in place by the rivets which secure the side and end-bars together.

2. A holder for fly-paper comprising side bars formed in telescoping sections, endbars formed in telescoping sections and rigidly secured to said side bars, supporting feet on the outer ends of sections of said side bars and integrally formed downwardly bent portions on one section of each side bar to form intermediate supporting feet.

3. A holder for fiy-paper comprising a frame formed of fiat-strips of metal some of which are bent to form supporting-feet at the corners and interlnediately of the frame, they may be/raised to permit insertion or reand fiat pieces of spring-metal secured to moval of the fly-paper. 10 the frame at the corners thereof having In testimony whereof I affix my signature gripping portions co-acting with the flatin presence of two Witnesses.

strips of frame to hold the fly-paper, said DAVID MGBAIN SYME. spring-meta1 pieces having projections en- \Vitnesses:

gaging depressions formed in the flat-strips ARCHIE W. BURDIOK,

of the frame and finger-portions whereby JOSEPH F OGSTON.

Copies 0'1 this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents, Washington, D. G. 

